Flashback Friday: Good Faeries, Bad Faeries
This week’s Flashback Friday: Good Faeries, Bad Faeries by Brian Froud. My first exposure to the land of Brian Froud was through the films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Though at the time, I didn’t know the name of the creator Read More…
Flashback Friday: A New Year
This week’s Flashback Friday: A New Year! Flashbacks are typically about looking back, but why do we bother if not to find our way forward? I’m a firm believer that the decisions and events of our past form and shape Read More…
Flashback Friday: Christmas Past
This week’s Flashback Friday: Christmas Past The first Christmas I remember involved a fake Cabbage Patch doll–fake because we were really poor and my family couldn’t afford the $40 or $50 stores were charging for the new “hot toy.” I Read More…
Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Some folks are probably asking what in the world does A Christmas Carol have to do with science fiction and fantasy? This classic is so deeply rooted in our literature Read More…
Flashback Friday: A Look Back
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Look Back. Today begins our Joy to the Worlds Book Tour. If you’d told me ten years or even five years ago that I’d be driving around the Pacific Northwest with three authors on a Read More…
Flashback Friday: Dear America
This week’s Flashback Friday: Dear America Dear America, You’ve probably seen it on social media as it’s making the rounds, but in the early days of World War II, we turned away Jewish refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Read More…
Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMo
This week’s Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMo My first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) was back in 2008. I wrote what would later become The Eldest Silence–a first draft of 61,870 words. It was a mad dash that made me hold my Read More…
Flashback Friday: Halloween & Cosplay
This week’s Flashback Friday: Halloween & Cosplay I don’t remember my first Halloween costume, but I remember being a princess in 1st grade, a Care Bear in 2nd grade, and a cat in 4th grade. And no, I have no Read More…
Flashback Friday: Back to the Future
This week’s Flashback Friday: Back to the Future Since everyone else is looking at Back to the Future this week and having such a fabulous time with it, I wanted to jump on board. The first film came out in Read More…
Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix
This week’s Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix Cats & Netflix…not really a Flashback Friday so much as a Flashback to last week. I have no real reason to have this categorized as a Flashback Friday other than my want to Read More…
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